540 LXXI. COMPOSITA. [ Vernonia 
greenish soon spreading and easily breaking off; corolla tubular, 
gradually narrowing downwards, rather shorter than the anthers ; 
lobes ovate, sub-acute; anther-base obtuse; style-branches ex- 
serted, puberulous, somewhat tapering, diverging and spirally 
curved downwards; nectary small, fleshy, annular, glabrous ; 
achenes glabrous when young, afterwards thinly pilose, about 
10-ribbed; pappus rigid, setose, nearly in one row, as long as 
the involucre, always white. 
GoLuNGoO ALTO.—In wooded situations throughout nearly the whole 
district. Between Trombeta and Cabondo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. 
Near Cacarambola July 1855, and by thickets abundantly, fl. and fr. 
14 Aug. 1855. At Sange, June 1856, Native name “ N-dolo”; by 
some erroneously called “ Molulu.” No. 3258 partly. 
a Mata de Cambondo ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3258 
partly. 
Huiiia.—In wooded rocky parts of Humpata ; not yet in fl. April 
1860. In the absence of fl. and fr. the determination is doubtful. 
No. 3262. 
Nearly related to V. myriantha Hook. f., but differs by the 1-flowered 
involucres and by the presence of the auricles; see Scott Elliot in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 84 (1894). 
5. HERDERIA Cass. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p, 232. 
1. H. stellulifera Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 425 (1849) ; 
O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 298. 
SrerRA LEoNE.—FI. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3519. 
GoLtunco ALro.—An annual herb 2 ft. high, or rarely biennial and 
then 3 ft. ; corollas violet-red. In shady forests and in tall damp 
reed-beds along rivulets, at the spring of Capopa ; fl. and fr. beginning 
of Jan. 1855. No. 3516. In the primitive forests of Quisuculo in 
Sobato Bango; fl. and fr. April 1856. No. 3514. An annual, rather 
erect, much branched herb, with the habit quite of an Alsine, and red 
corollas. In moist neglected places previously cultivated, near Sange, 
in the Bumba country ; fl. and fr. May 1856. No. 3515. 
AmpBaca.—aAn erect herb, 1 to 2 ft. high, with lilac-purple deciduous 
corollas. In moist places at the wooded outskirts of the mountains 
of Queta, near the river Moembege ; fl. and fr. June 1855._ No. 3517. 
Punco ANDoNGo,—An annual herb, with a slender usually quasi- 
scandent stem, and pallid violet-coloured corollas. Among tall grasses 
on the Calemba island in the river Cuanza ; fl. and fr. March 1857. 
No. 3518. 
6. ELEPHANTOPUS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 237. 
1. E. scaber L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 814 (1753); O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 299. 
Hvityta.—A perennial herb, growing in a ceespitose manner, with 
the habit of the genus. In sunny wooded parts of the Monino, not 
uncommon ; not yet in open fl. Feb. 1860. No. 3389. 
Prince’s Istanp.—In wooded sunny places in the lower part of the 
island ; fr. Sept. 1853. No. 3388. 
2. E. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect strigose-scabrid perennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, 
branched in the upper part ; stem terete and with the branches 
